Charles Manson Hospitalized

LOS ANGELES, CA — Los Angeles' most notorious killer is out of prison today. Charles Manson, serving nine life sentences for orchestrating a series of grisly murders that shocked the nation, has been taken to a hospital in Bakersfield, according to reports.

Manson, who's spent the past five decades in California's Corcoran State Prison, has been hospitalized with serious gastrointestinal problems, TMZ reported.

News media in Bakersfield identified a corrections department van was parked outside Bakersfield’s Mercy Hospital. According to the Bakersfield Californian, was admitted under the name“Joe Doe.” Despite his lengthy incarceration, Manson continues to have devotees including a 26-year-old woman who was granted a license to marry Manson in 2014, the Los Angeles Times reported. He is not up for parole again until 2027.

Manson was the mastermind of the unprovoked murders of the pregnant actress Sharon Tate and her house guests in 1969, followed the next day by the murders of grocery store chain owners Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. In all, a group of Manson's devotees known as the Manson Family were convicted for the murders of eight people. At two crime scenes the killers scrawled messages written in the blood of their victims.

Manson didn't commit any of the killings himself, but he ordered the murders. Following a sensational trial, Manson was convicted of first degree-murder and sentenced to death. He and the other convicted family members were spared execution when the state overturned capital punishment in 1972.

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Photo: California Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections